Bibliograph

The last stone, a masterpiece of criminal interrogation, Mark Bowden

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The last stone, a masterpiece of criminal interrogation, Mark Bowden

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The last stone

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Mark Bowden

Sub title

a masterpiece of criminal interrogation

Summary

On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective found something he and a generation of detectives had missed. It pointed them toward a man named Lloyd Welch, then serving time for child molestation in Delaware. As a cub reporter for a Baltimore newspaper, Mark Bowden covered the frantic first weeks of the story. In The Last Stone, he returns to write its ending. Over months of intense questioning and extensive investigation of Welch’s sprawling, sinister Appalachian clan, five skilled detectives learned to sift truth from determined lies. How do you get a compulsive liar with every reason in the world to lie to tell the truth? The Last Stone recounts a masterpiece of criminal interrogation, and delivers a chilling and unprecedented look inside a disturbing criminal mind

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